INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

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About Latino Studies

Latino Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal. Its principal aim is to advance interdisciplinary scholarship about the lived experience and struggles of Latinas and Latinos for equity, representation, and social justice. Sustaining the tradition of activist scholarship of the founders of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Puerto Rican Studies, we critically engage the study of the local, national, transnational, and hemispheric realities that continue to influence the Latina and Latino presence in the United States.

Latino Studies provides an intellectual forum for innovative explorations and theorization, and is committed to developing a new transnational research agenda that bridges the academic and non-academic worlds and fosters mutual learning and collaboration among all the Latino national groups. We publish scholarly research, periodic reports on curriculum developments and pedagogy, analyses of significant regional and local events, and letters from our readers on our contributors' articles.

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General submission guidelines

We welcome submissions of original research articles from scholars in the national and international research communities. The Journal can only accept submissions of unpublished manuscripts, which are not being considered by other publications. Manuscripts should preferably be submitted in English, in Word format, via electronic attachment. Please double space the entire manuscript, including all notes and bibliographical references, and make sure all pages are numbered consecutively. Scholarly articles should not normally exceed 8,000 words in length. Please print a word count and date at the end of your manuscript.

When you submit your article, please also attach:

  • an abstract of 150 - 200 words, in English, detailing the article's key arguments and conclusions. (if possible, please also include a Spanish version of your abstract);
  • a list of up to six keywords suitable for indexing and abstracting services; and
  • on a separate page, provide a brief biographical note about each author, including current institutional affiliation, research interests and any recent and/or forthcoming publications.

In order to ensure anonymity during the peer-review process, the name(s), title(s), and full affiliation(s) of the author(s) should only appear on a separate cover sheet, together with her/his preferred mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers.

Please note that we do not need a diskette or paper print out with your initial submission. Once an article is accepted for publication, authors are asked to submit the final version of their manuscript via email attachment to:

  • Suzanne Oboler
    Editor, Latino Studies,
    John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
    Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies
    445 West 59th Street, room 1555N
    New York, NY 10019, USA
    E-mail: latstu@jjay.cuny.edu
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Latino Studies sections

In addition to original research articles,Latino Studies welcomes submissions for the following specific sections:

  • Vivencias: reports from the field – short essays and reflections (up to 2000 words) on significant local issues, struggles and debates affecting the lives of Latinas and Latinos in local communities around the country.
  • Páginas Recuperadas – short archival documents reflecting historically-significant achievements by individuals, and/or pivotal events in the Latino/a experience.
  • Reflexiones Pedagógicas - short essays addressing issues contributing to the development and institutionalization of the field in the academy.
  • El Forum - Letters to the editor with our readers' comments and responses to the articles in each Volume.

Please send your submissions to the Editor, to: latstu@jjay.cuny.edu

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Style Guidelines

Below are some guidelines for in-text citations, notes, and references, which you may find useful as you prepare your manuscript for submission. Please refer to the "Author-Date Citations and Reference Lists" described in Chapter 16 of The Chicago Manual of Style for more specific examples.

Manuscript style guidelines

In order to preserve anonymity during the peer review process, we ask that authors omit obvious references to their own publications (e.g. "As I argued in my 2001 article, XXX").

We prefer short sentences, short paragraphs, lively prose and creative use of language, and simple clear phraseology with direct tenses.

  • Manuscript should be double spaced.
  • Margins should be one inch on top, bottom, left and right.
  • Font should be Times New Roman, 12 point.
  • Quotations should be within double quotation marks. When quoting within quotations, please use single quotes.
  • Long quotations of five or more lines should be indented and single-spaced without quotes.
  • Numbers of 11 and higher should be in figures.
  • Dates should be in the form of September 5, 1990; 1994-1998; or, the 1990s.

References in the Text

In the text, refer to the author(s) name(s) (without initials, unless there are two authors with the same name) and year of publication. Unpublished data and personal communications should include initials and year. Publications which have not yet appeared are given a probable year of publication.

  • Example:

    Since Padilla (1985) published his seminal book ... More recently, various scholars have discussed both the importance and the pitfalls of interracial collaboration (Martínez, 1999, 56; Betancur et al., 1999). Still others (Zimmerman, 2002, personal communication) suggest....

  • Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be identified with a, b, c (e.g. 1974a, 1990b) close up to the year. If there are two authors for a publication, put both names separated by "and" (not "&"). If there are more than two authors, put the name of the first author followed by et al. References to material on the internet must be given in brackets in the text, not in the reference list. Always include the full URL.

  • Example:

    http//www.census.gov/population/socdemo/hispanic/p20_535/p20_535.pdf

Notes

Latino Studies publishes short notes to articles as side notes. These side notes are published on the outside margins of the page, alongside the article, rather than as footnotes at the bottom of the page, or end notes at the end of the article.

We ask that authors keep notes brief and to an absolute minimum. Please place author-date references (within the article as discussed above) and use notes only to elaborate briefly on a particular point.

List of References

References are placed in alphabetical order of authors. The following are examples of correct forms of references:

  • Paper in journal:

    García, Alma. 1989. The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse 1970-1980. Gender and Society 3: 217-238.

  • Book:

    Anzaldúa, Gloria. 1987. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.

    Torres, Andrés, and José E. Velazquez, eds. 1998. The Puerto Rican Movements: Voices from the Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

  • Chapter in book:

    Acosta-Belén,Edna, and Carlos E. Santiago. 1998. Merging Borders: The Remapping of America. In The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy and Society, ed. Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres, 29-42. Oxford, UK and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.

    González, Deena. 2001. Chicana Identity Matters. In The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000, ed. Chon Noriega et al., 411-426. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications. First published in Aztlán 22, no. 2 (fall, 1997).

  • Conference paper:

    Ruiz,Vicki. 1997. Border Journeys: Gender and Mexican Immigration, 1910-1940. Paper presented at the Conference on Women and Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 2.

  • Thesis:

    Pérez, Gina M. 2000. The Near Northwest Side Story: Gender, Migration, and Everyday Life in Chicago and San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University.

  • Newspaper article:

    Dorfman, Ariel. 1986. The Challenge in Chile. The New York Times, June 29, A23.

    Manifestación Independentista Borinqueña. 1935. La Prensa, September 3.

Illustrations and tables

Supply tables, figures and plates on separate sheets at the end of the article, with their position within the text clearly indicated on the page where they are introduced. Provide typed captions for figures and plates (including sources and acknowledgments) on a separate sheet. Electronic versions should be saved in separate files to the main body of text and should be saved in either TIFF or JPEG format.

Present tables with the minimum use of horizontal rules (usually three are sufficient) and avoiding vertical rules except in matrices. It is important to provide clear copies of figures (not photocopies or faxes) which can be reproduced by the printer and do not require redrawing. Photographs should be preferably black and white glossy prints with a wide tonal range.

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Copyright

Clearing Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing through any medium of communication those illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Add your acknowledgments to the typescript, preferably in the form of an Acknowledgments section at the end of the paper. Credit the source and copyright of photographs or figures in the accompanying captions.

The journal's policy is to own copyright in all contributions. Before publication, authors assign copyright to the Publishers. Authors do however retain their rights to republish this material in other works written or edited by themselves, subject to full acknowledgment of the original source of publication.

The journal mandates the Copyright Clearance Center in the USA and the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK to offer centralized licensing arrangements for photocopying in their respective territories.